Btw, what you describe is an excellent way to copy application variables from another application. This would be a trivial UDF in MX
<cfapplication name="other_app"> <cfset appData = duplicate(application)> <cfapplication name="orig_app"> ======================================================================= Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 12:11 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: [cflogin] okay, I think I have it...except for > one little part... > > > <snip> > >No. Having an Application.cfm file in a folder does NOT define an > >application. The <CFAPPLICATION> tag does. So, the > Application.cfm file > >in /SUB cfincludes the Application.cfm file in /. That one uses > ><cfapplication name="whatever">, so both folders share the same > >application space. > </snip> > > ...just a side question for my curiosity Jeff...I'm hijacking > some of your thread is all! > > Ray...I usually just use the cfapplication tag in an > application.cfm file in a sub folder and use the same > application name as the folder above it and everything works > fine. Perhaps this is bad form or something? I've never > heard anything bad about it and it works splendidly. > > kind of like this > /application.cfm has cfapplication tag with name="foo" > /sub/sub/.../application has cfapplication tag with > name="foo" and all the app related vars are available in both places. > > Doug > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4

